RO-RO boom leads to an all-time CV record
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• The 1986 boom in international commercial traffic (CM, 19-25 November) continued well into 1987.
The latest Dip RO-RO statistics show that in the third quarter of last year British freight vehicles made almost 60,000 international journeys. This was an all-time record, and an increase of 15% on the corresponding period last year. During the same period traffic by foreign-powered vehicles decreased by 4% to 76,900 journeys. French vehicles showed an especially heavy loss of 19%. By contrast German traffic increased by 21%.
British hauliers now have 44% of the market, still well short of the 58% they enjoyed 10 years ago, but an improvement on the 39% of 1985.
Unaccompanied trailer traffic increased steadily in the first nine months of last year, after stagnating in 1986.
The July-September total of almost 125,000 journeys was 25% up on the corresponding period in 1986.